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William Collins RA (8 September 1788 in London – 17 February 1847 in London) was an English landscape and genre painter. His sentimental paintings of poor people enjoying nature became a posthumous high fashion, notably in the 1870s when his market price rose higher than Constable (Cromer Sands, £3780, 1872) and stayed so until 1894.
William Collins RA (8 September 1788 in London – 17 February 1847 in London) was an English landscape and genre painter. In the late 19th century, his work was more popular and highly valued than even that of J. M. W. Turner or John Constable .
- British
- September 8, 1788
- Croydon, Surrey, London, United Kingdom
- February 17, 1847
English landscape and genre painter born in London. His father, William Collins (d. 1812) was a picture dealer and writer, originally form Ireland. He wrote a memoir of the painter George Morland (1763–1804). Collins’s mother (d. 1833) was from Edinburgh.
William Collins (8 September 1788 in London – 17 February 1847 in London) was an English landscape and genre painter. His sentimental paintings of poor people enjoying nature became a posthumous high fashion, notably in the 1870s when his market price rose higher than Constable (Cromer Sands, £3780, 1872) and stayed so until 1894.
William Collins was a British painter popular for both his genre scenes and landscapes. View William Collins’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
- British
COLLINS, WILLIAM (1788-1847), English painter, son of an Irish picture dealer and man of letters, the author of a Life of George Morland, was born in London. He studied under Etty in 1807, and in 1809 exhibited his first pictures of repute — Boys at Breakfast, and Boys with a Bird’s Nest.
William Collins Memoirs Of A Painter: Being A Genuine Biographical Sketch Of That Celebrated Original And Eccentric Genius, The Late Mr. George Morland. Drawn from the tolerably authentic source of more than twenty years' intimate acquaintance with him, his family, and connections.
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